Corset.



J. GOLDBERG.

Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 20., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NT FFTCE.

JOSEPH GOLDBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1'7, 1915.

Application filed November 11, 1912. Serial No. 730,558.

To all whom it mayconcem:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GOLDBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a full, .clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to apparel, and with regard to certain more specific features, to apparel corsets.

The invention has for one object the --pro'-" vision in an apparel corset of comfortable and hygienic means for obtaining the socalled straight-front effect.

Another object is the provision of a simple arrangement of a reducing and supporting device across the lower front portion of the corset.

Another object is the practical utilization of elastic material in adjustable and detachable connection with the front steels.

Another object is the provision of a simple, efiicient and durable adjusting means so that, among other things, the supporting and other functions of the elastic material may be maintained at a constant value or varied at the will of the wearer.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claim.

In the drawing, in which is shown one of v the various possible embodiments of my invention, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of an apparel corset with the elastic material in one position, and Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation similar to Fig. 1, but showing the elastic members in another position.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout both views of the drawing.

Referring now to Fig. 1, there is illus trated at 1 an apparel corset of any usual or approved construction not inconsistent with the limitations hereinafter described. The

halves 2 and 3 are adapted to be connected at the front by the clasps 4 fastened to the front steels 5 and 6 in the usual manner. At a,po1nt on the corset preferably closely adjacent the hip bone of the wearer is secured means adapted to reduce and support 1'1 and eyes 12, to be fastened together at a point adjacent the front steels 5 and 6. On the front steels 5, 6, or preferably as indicated, simply on the steel 5, is secured a depending hook or other device 13, adapted to cooperate with the lowermost of the hooks 11 to hold the coacting portions of the elastic members 9, 10, in a position lower (see Fig. 1) than they would normally occupy (see Fig. 2) if said members were fastened to each other but not engaged by said de pending hook 13. Thus in the embodiment illustrated, I have provided for three separate adjustments. First, with the elastic members 9 and 10 secured neither to each other, nor to the front steels, these members hang loosely and have, of course, no effect whatever on the wearer. Second, with the elastic members secured simply to each other by the hooks 11 and eyes 12, there is exerted a constricting action due to the tension of the elastic members, which occupy substantially the horizontal position indicated in Fig. 2. Third, with the elastic members secured both to each other and to the front steels, as shown in Fig. 1, the reducing action and supporting action are both increased due to the increased tension of the webbing members 9 and 10 and to the lowered position of the juxtaposed portions of said members with respect to the abdomen.

It is obvious that either of the cooperative pairs of hooks and eyes 11 and 12 might be engaged with the depending hook 13, thereby serving to position or lower the elastic members and at the same time vary the tension on said members. Or an additional hook 1-1 might be employed to which the hooks and eyes might be attached for a purpose similar to that just mentioned. As many other changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments-of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings" shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be under stood that the language used in the follow ing claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the inven tion herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim' A corset comprising, in combination, ends of a pair of elastic web strips secured thereto one at either side of the central front of the corset and at approximately the level of that portion of the corset adapted to be transversely of the corset, and a hook attached to the central portion of the front of the corset below the transverse plane in which said attached ends lie, said last-mentioned hook being adapted to be engaged by said first mentioned hooks and thereby cause said strips to lie across a different portion of' the corset and to be under a tension greater than that before mentioned.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH GOLDBERG. Witnesses:

' DELOS G. HAYNES,

L.- A. VVATSON.

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Washington, D. G. 

